The Official Newspaper
of the 50th
International
of the European
Youth Parliament
The Official
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50th International
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clared on November 9 beyond Pakistan Bombing
12 days to three months. Politicians were to debate the issue
A powerful car bomb exploded outside the front entrance
today. The number of cars
to a KFC restaurant in the southern Pakistan city of
burned – which has become a measure of the unrest Karachi early Tuesday, killing at least three people and
- continued to drop and there were no overnight
injuring 12 others. Previous bombings in Pakistan have
clashes between youths and riot police.
been linked to Islamic extremists opposed to President
“The situation is getting back to normal,” PolicePervez Musharraf’s close ties to the US. Pakistan has
Chief Gaudin told France-Info radio, adding that
been a US ally in the war on terrorism, but as of yet
the extension of a state of emergency was a
nobody has claimed the attack.
“necessary” measure for keeping the peace.

Paris Riot Update
President Jacques Chirac has called for a collective fight against racism in response to France’s
worst unrest in almost 40 years, saying discrimination poisons society.
Addressing the nation, Chirac said he had asked
parliament to extend a state of emergency de-

Merkel Election Development
Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic party yesterday overwhelmingly approved a coalition
agreement with Social Democrats that will make her Germany’s first woman chancellor. Only
3 of 116 delegates voted against the agreement. SPD members will vote on the agreement
shortly. If they approve, parliament will formally elect Merkel on November 22.
Newsflashes brought to you by Finn “Fingers”

K a z a k h s ta n
t h r e a t e n s
b o r a t !
Borat Sagdiyev, one of the British actor Sacha
Baron Cohen’s character acts, was recently
hosting the MTV Europe Music Awards. According to the Norwegian newspaper
Dagbladet, following his performance, Kazakhstan feels insulted. Many Kazakhs

believe that foreigners now look at Kazakhstan as a republic where they keep women in cages, and where the favourite national
pastime is dog hunting. The Kazakhs have decided to consider a lawsuit. Borat Sagdiyev first appeared on Cohen’s show “Ali-G”,
where he pretended to be a Kazakstani journalist conducting interviews in England and the USA. But there has been no reaction to
him until his performance at the MTV show. A Kazakhstani Foreign Ministry spokesman, Yerzhan Ashykbayev, said yesterday: "We
do not rule out that Mr Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its’ people in a derogatory
way." At the show he arrived in an Air Kasakh helicopter, he introduced Madonna as a transvestite, and called an all-women band
“international singing prostitutes”. There is a fine line between this kind of behaviour and common accepted ethics. However, his
MTV performance was understated compared to previous acts, such as when he performed the song “Throw the Jews in the Well” in
a bar in Arizona, where he received raging applause from the audience. Due to this, Cohen has been accused of being anti-Semitist
by certain groups of people.
Baron Cohen is Jewish.
Kris “The Fist”

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REPORT OF TASTE !
In today’s series we have the pleasure to
have with us a very special person. Our
guest is the worldwide famous professor Dr.
Chefano de Cookingluci coming straight
from his hometown in Disneyland!!! Dr.
Chefano de Cookingluci is going to introduce us to one of the crucial topics of the
gastronomic science. Of course this could be
nothing else than the huge dilemma concerning peoples across the continents from
the beginning of history:

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Are you wearing Nike shoes while eating a McDonald’s hamburger and listening to Britney
Spears music? Are you having a safari in Africa while drinking some Coke and talking to your
friend using a Nokia phone? Don’t you have the impression that something’s a little unusual?
(listening to Britney’s pop music included) Globalisation is everywhere around us, but do you
really know what it is? Well, I’ll try to clarify your ideas. We can basically define globalisation
as a step toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy. It has two main components: globalisation of markets (people’s tastes
on a world base are becoming more and more
convergent, due to mass media and new commupizza vs. pasta !!!!!!
nication systems) and production (it’s cheaper for
So, Dr. Chefano, over to you…
big companies to move their production procGood morning ladies and gentleman, I and
esses to less developped countries that can offer
my belly are here today to define fact from
them cheaper workers and raw materials). Even
fiction and pleasure from illusion. I know
if, on one hand, globalisation of production can
that this specific issue needs extend knowl- decrease the price of a certain globalised product,
edge of tasting and great expertise in eating,
stimulate the economy of countries creating new
but that is why I am here.
working places, it’s also responsible for the inSo, to begin with, one of the most basic
creasing percentage of child labour and decreasdifferences is that pasta definitely needs a
plate in order to ing manufacturing jobs in wealthy countries.
Now, let’s have a practical example of what being
be consumed
globalised means. Here at EYP, where people
whereas pizza
definitely does- from all over Europe are living together, it’s really
common to have those kind of “inter-cultural
n’t.
One more fact is exchanges”, in which you delegates are real exthat pizza is
perts; you should realise that people from different countries are having a very globalised life.
much more
Let’s consider, for example, Jill (LV), the international organiser. Have you ever seen such a
likely to get
globalised girl? She was born in Latvia, she’s lived in Holland and Switzerland, she’s got an
your hands
Irish boyfriend, friends in every corner of Europe, she was in Basel in July and in Bari now,
dirty (especially and she cannot live without a pink shiny cowboy hat. Oh, I’m sorry Jill... You know the Jourif you don’t use nos’ mafia kidnapped it!! However, we have visual help in order to understand how “Uragano
a serviette) in
Jill” is now expanding herself throughout Europe trying to impose the pink hat trend.PAY ATcomparison to
TENTION JILL.. JOURNO MAFIA IS WATCHING YOU.

pasta which
seems to be
much safer unless you decide to eat it without a fork.
But there are some more crucial factors
that affect one’s choice. For example, although pasta is served in a round plate, you
always know where to start eating it from:
from the middle and then spread out. Pizza
on the other hand has no starting point! I
mean, don’t you feel really stressed when
you have to choose one of the equally sized,
balanced delicious pizza pieces from their
position in the circle? It is a very hard decision since they are all the same.
Thinking even further, pasta is soft; I mean
it is more liquid than pizza which is solid, so
you don’t have to cut it. On the contrary,
pizza is solid (sometimes too solid actually),
so you must use a knife to cut it. You may
now ask what is strange about it. Well, this
is where psychology mixes in the fields of
gastronomy. Because the harsh action of
using a knife to cut the pizza makes one
release all his violent and brutal instincts
that nature gifted us with, it helps release
the anger and get rid of all bad thoughts
and hatred.
After all that, where do we conclude? We
conclude with the most significant contradiction between pizza and pasta. This is the
fact that after consuming pasta, you have to
wash the plate; in the case of pizza though,
you just use the box to put your used socks
in it…isn’t that amazing????
Orestis “The Dirty Bang”

MAMMA MIA!
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The first chicken infected with bird flu has been found in Italy. Supposedly a man in South-Korea found that sauerkraut can cure that sneaky disease and his chickens were saved!
•
The oldest animal in the world, Harriet the Turtle, celebrated her 175th
birthday yesterday.
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Good news for the French. The tooth of Napoleon (broken, pulled out in
1817) will be put under the hammer next week at auction.
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Yesterday the world famous blind Dutch organist got locked in a church
after a performance somewhere in Southern Europe.
•
Estonian politicians are taking action to join the capitals of Estonia and
Finland within the next 10 years.
•
In Germany students of 3 schools can officially attend classes in their
swimming suits– the heating system has taken a turn for the hot.
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A newly discovered star will be named after a Bulgarian transvestite –
Azisi. Congrats!
•
A pair of men’s underwear found on the 4th floor of the hotel. Probably
the cause of World War Three.
•
St. Nicholas Union in Switzerland decided to forbid the Santas to place
children on their lap. Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
•
A Hong Kong gourmet has bought an Italian truffle weighing 2.7lbs for
€90,000.
•
A sparrow knocked over 23,000 dominoes in the Netherlands, nearly
ruining a world record attempt before an exterminator shot it dead today.
•
An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter Sclae has hit northern Japan. There are no reports of fatalities.

To bring you all the fresh news – Cousin It
The chairs team mafioso and pressroom paparazzi! Turn over for the profiles..

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by Buba the Schrimp Killer

“Antonio Meucci not Bell - invented
the telephone”

“Haiduc ! Ciao ! Merhaba ! Hi ! Salut ! Hallo !” : most of EYPer’s cannot
live without their cell-phones. But do they really know who they should
be grateful to ? Well, the official inventor of telephone is the italian
Antonio Meucci.

Meucci was an Italian emigrant who left his native Florence in 1835 for the New World, never to return
to Europe.
In his young age, Meucci was admitted to the "Accademia di Belle Arti" on 27 November 1821, and remained in the Academy six
years, following the schools of Chemistry and Mechanics. From 1823 to 1835 he was first employed as customs officer at the gates
of Florence and then worked as a stage designer and technician in various theaters, including the reknown Teatro della Pergola.
Absolutely fascinated by scientific research of any kind, Meucci read every scientific tract he could get his hands on, and spent all
his spare time in Havana on research, inventing a new method of galvanizing metals which he applied to military equipment for the
Cuban government; at the same time, he continued his work in the theater and pursued his endless experiments.
When he arrived in New York in 1850 and became a friend there of Giuseppe Garibaldi, later the unifier of Italy. He lived on Staten
Island until his death in poverty at the age of 81.
A prolific inventor but a failure as a businessman, Meucci invented a device he called the
telectrophone for communicating with his handicaped wife from his workshop. He patented
his invention in 1871 but failed to find someome to sell it .
Five years later a Scots-born American, Alexander Graham Bell, successfully patented the
instrument we now know as the telephone.
But as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s scientist Nicholas Negroponte comments : "Bell died a pauper. He may have patented it but he certainly didn't get wealthy. It's
not like some of the other inventions that netted a great deal of fortune for the heirs."
In june 2003, Italy issued a postage stamp to mark the official recognition of Meucci as the
inventor of the telephone and President Ciampi honoured him at a ceremony at the telecommunication ministry, commenting that both the telephone and radio were invented by
Italians.
Grazi Italians!

MOST MEMORABLE EYP EXPERİENCES
By Hakan “Quickwit”

Before I start this article I would like to mention that all of the male chairs except Kostas surveyed refused to share their MOST memorable experience(!).

Kostas: Was swimming in the fountains in Basel 05 with 40 other people. On a more serious note, I would say that it wasseeing my committee for the
first time at my first session (Stavanger).

Nemenja: At my first international session we went to a Thai restauarant as a comittee. We all ordered the same soup, but when we tasted the soup, it
was so spicy that we all made a weird sound(“uaghhhh”) at the same time.

Nas: My most memorable experience would be six people staying in a room arranged for two at Bialystok, Poland(October05).
Bent: Errrrr... my most memorable experience would be watching the Greek pianist Vasilis fiddling (!) around with a piano in the Hämeenlinna ‘99
Euroconcert.

Michel: Wait I need to think about it.......................................... You’ve been waiting for enough time, now let’s see... I guess it would have to be
making an ambassador speech in Prague (2003).
Tara: (Note from author: being one of the BEST chairs she answered immediatelyJ) İt would certainly be performing at Euroconcert in Stavanger 05.
Kair: Ummmm. I guess it would be being constantly ecstatic after the bonfire in Tabor 04, due to some mischief...
Philipp: In Weimar ‘99 the trip to Buchenwald (a concentration camp) was certainly a once in a lifetime experience but last night was great!
Chris: Some of my best experiences would be singing Vettae olet Voimaa (Semmarit) at (unofficial) Euroconcert in Berlin ‘04, dancing for the first time
in my life at Vienna ‘98, getting kissed by a random Polish girl for guarding her purse in Rome ‘99 and in Dubrovnik ‘01 I went swimming in the ocean
with 4 Belgian women at 11PM.
Thomas: The moment i metThe
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Hey, Lorna! What’s up?”
Something extremely awkward happened to me yesterday on the way back to the hotel; I
was sitting at the back of the bus, leaning over the window and trying to keep my eyes
open as the bus driver made anything humanly possible to get us all “bus” sick, when suddenly...my eyes met the figure of a familiar person sitting right across the corridor. There
was something strange about the face, something unusual that I had never noticed before.
That strange look on her face got stuck in my head. I knew I had seen that look before, I
was sure about it, I could almost recognise it. And then came the revelation... It was so
obvious, right in front of my eyes, how could I not have noticed before? How come no one
else has seen it? It was her. Yes, undoubtedly it was HER. The one, the only, the most famous of all, the mysterious, the precious one. La Mona Lisa!
When Leonardo da Vinci, the Florentine artist who was also celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist, painted her, back in 1500, he was already one of the
great masters of High Renaissance. According to experts, the painting is a portrait of Mona
or Monna (short for Madonna) Lisa, who was born in Florence in 1479 and in 1495 married the Marguese del Giocondo, a Florentine of some standing - hence the painting’s name, “La Gioconda”. The portrait was a
request from her husband, as Leonardo was one of his acquaintances.
Leonardo da Vinci made this portrait using two of his well known techniques, sfumato
and chiaroscuro, a fact that has contributed for Mona Lisa to become his most famous
work and to be considered the prototype of the Renaissance portrait. It became even more
famous in 1911, when it was stolen from the Salle Carrée on 21 August 1911 by Vicenzo
Perrugia, an Italian workman. In 1913 it was found in Florence, exhibited at the Uffizi,
then in Rome and Milan, and brought back to Paris on 31 December in the same year,
where it is still exhibited. It is said that Mona Lisa’s face was painted that way so as to fit
perfectly into a golden rectangle (that is a rectangle with angles of 222.5 degrees each)
and to allow the artist to structure the rest of the painting around similar rectangles.
This figure of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a
visionary, mountainous landscape is well known for its mastery of technical innovations
as for the mysteriousness of its legendary smiling subject. The Mona Lisa's enigmatic
expression, which seems both alluring and aloof, has given the portrait universal fame.
Poetry has been written about this small masterpiece by Leonardo, and the gentle woman
who is its subject has been adapted in turn as an aesthetic, philosophical and even as an
advertising symbol, subject of Hollywood movies and best sellers, such as the recent “The
Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown.
After the spontanious flash-back into the history of Art in the Renaissance, I regained consciousness and whispered, still
trembling: “Hey, Lorna! What’s up?”
Signorina in Black

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With their red tops and and Italian accents it would have been hard for anyone to miss the Grande Mago. For the past few days
they have been causing a huge ruckuss about the city of Bari performing such haenous acts as:
Spelling ‘We love Orga’s’ with cherry and coffee sweets.
Adding an ‘m’ and an ‘s’ to the above word.
Chasing and tying up all the male International Organisers.
Verbally and physically abusing journalist’s at random.
Creating lewd and uncouth shapes with food.
Distinguished by their strange and frightening ritual of performing a trick with an object and then shouting “Grande Maaaago!” the
gang has been known to act specifically during coffee breaks and lunch time, while plotting in between. Weapons of choice include
‘Pocket Coffee’, ‘Mon Chéri’ and some eniticng doughnuts.
Recently the gang has been employing more obscure tactics to confuse and then abuse their enemies. They have, according to our
sources, employed an invisible leopard named ‘ Marco’, a fearsome beast who prowls about during coffee break. The gang has not
been challenged very assertively by anyone, partly due to these tactics and otherwise due to the monopoly over food and room numbers which the gang holds in their crime-ridden hands.
What can be done with so powerful a bunch? Will Bari have it’s knight in shining GA suit, to save us from this peril? Only time will
tell.

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“ A m a r e t t o ”

We are all cultivated, we all know who Leonardo da Vinci (after the da Vinci code he could be considered a popstar) is, but do we know
the exceptional weird details or tiny little facts about these famous Italians? In order to combine culture with a bit of fun, did you know
…
That in the thomb of Laura de Noves, the woman Petrarca loved according to some sources, they found a medal with a sonnet of him
inside? But if she was real, it is unknown if they ever spoke, or if she ever knew of his feelings for her.
That Leonardo Da Vinci had 17 half sisters and brothers, and that in addition of probably being the smartest person ever, Leonardo
would’ve been a handsome man with a nice singing voice, that he was a vegetarian and he loved animals so much that he would even
buy caged animals at the market just to set them free?
That Frederico Fellini debuted as an actor with blonde hair and a beard, as a tramp who is thought to be Saint Joseph, that he directed
a “Campari” and “Banca di Roma” commercial and that he was booed and insulted by the non-paying audience at the premiere of "La
Dolce Vita" in Milan in the same year he won the Golden Palm in Cannes for "La Dolce Vita"?
That Roberto Benigni, the director and actor of “La vita e bella” used to be a very introvert boy and almost became a priest?
That aside from being the first real discoverer of America, Amerigo Vespucci
studied under Michaelangelo and that his letters sent to Europe were more popular than Columbus’ diaries because he described the
sexual, marriage and childbirth practices of the indigenous people?
That Monica Bellucci has refused to move to Hollywood to further her acting career, because she hates how women are treated by the
American film industry?
That Luciano Pavarotti raised $8.2 million for the war children of Bosnia in 1997?
That Francesco Totti handpicked his favorite jokes about himself for a book of which the sales go to UNICEF?

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Imagine a regular week back home. Maybe you go to school, do some work, meet friends. There are weeks when you are more or less in the same
mood the whole time, maybe a bit depressed in the autumn. When you come to an EYP-session, it is all different. You leave your country, all excited, come to place you probably haven’t been to, you’re greeted by people you’ve never seen before and are taken somewhere, normally to the
middle of nowhere, to get to know a bunch of unknown people. You see strange faces; hear people talking languages you didn’t know existed. But
at the end of the session you can’t really grasp that you didn’t know your fellow delegates just ten days ago. You look around and feel like in a big
family. So what lead to that? I believe that it is the great mix of emotions, feelings and states of mind that is the “magic of the EYP”, words you so
often hear. In just one week (or even one day!) you can feel exited, nervous, strange, at ease, happy, sad, depressed, exhausted, useless, useful,
unique, frustrated, empty, full of emotions, tired and in some cases even in love. All these contrasts contribute to the special feeling you go home
with. You get to know yourself better; you see how well you interact with other people, strange and odd situations, conflicts. And as if the emotional part wasn’t enough, you also change appearances during just a few days. Starting
in baggy and sporty clothes you suddenly enter a world of national costumes. Next morning, waken up without pity you jump out your pyjamas and head of to the official part, all
dressed up formally. In just a few hours you are suddenly thrown back to the 1920ies,
mingling with feather-dressed “society-persons” and so it goes on throughout the week.
Serious work mixed with funny games, chairs going crazy, journos fooling around, orgas
dancing and just being everywhere at every hour. I guess that the lack of sleep also is
behind the “dreamy” atmosphere of the EYP, at the end of the week you don’t know if you
actually were at Euroconcert of just dreamed about it. So, don’t be surprised when you
close the door to your room back at home, you’ll guaranteed feel strange. Lying down on
the bed, thoughts will spin around in your head, the world around you’ll seem so quiet
and you’ll fall asleep for a looong time, waking up, facing a period of PED – Post-EYP-

Depression.

Made in Italy -

By Heidi “Capone”

Fashion and style is getting more and more relaxed it seems. There are absolutely no rules or commands in fashion anymore. Mixing colours and blending
everything together is not “hippie” anymore it’s “hip”. Everybody wants to create their own personal style and be different. Old clothes and ripped, dirty
jeans with a chlorine-washed T-shirt are the perfect outfit for a fashionista.
There is no doubt that Italy is well- known for its high-fashion. Here you can
find the biggest names in the fashion world such as Gucci, Fendi, Dolce &
Gabbana, Prada , Armani, and Versace. All of those famous for their luxurious
accessories and clothes and they all have top designers working for them.
Fashion shows are common among those big names and are always a popular
event with lots of posh people and photographers. For a fashion show you
should go to Milan or Rome where model agencies are also everywhere. There
are many good Fashion & Designer schools around Italy, most of them in
Rome, Milan and Florence. In EYP we have our own perfect sample for real
Italian fashion and style, Danny Vannucchi. If you look at his style and clothing you will see what I mean!

What They Say…
and What they Actually Mean
Have you had your eye on somebody for the last few nights?
EYP cafes are the best place where to hook up with some
one. However, there are times when you don’t understand a
word of what a guy is saying, or at least his actions differ a
lot from what he is telling you. Therefore we have set out you
some guidelines for understanding the language of rejection.
The top rejection lines by guys:
I think of you as a sister. (You're ugly.)
I'm not attracted to you in 'that' way. (You're ugly.)
My life is too complicated right now. (You're ugly.)
I don't date women where I work. (You're ugly.)
It's not you, it's me. (You're ugly.)
I'm concentrating on my career. (You're ugly.)
Let's be friends. (You're sinfully ugly.)
The top lines used by girls:
I think of you as a brother. (You remind me of that inbred
banjo-playing geek in "Deliverance.")
I'm not attracted to you in 'that' way. (You are the ugliest
dork I've ever laid eyes upon.)
I've got a boyfriend (who's really my male cat and a half gallon of Ben and Jerry's).
I don't date men where I work. (Hey, bud, I wouldn't even
date you if you were in the same 'solar system', much less
the same building.)
It's not you, it's me. (It's not me, it's you.)
I'm concentrating on my career. (Even something as boring
and unfulfilling as my job is better than dating you.)
Let's be friends. (I want you to stay around so I can tell you
in excruciating detail about all the other men I meet. )
By Linda ‘Jailbird’

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sun picture...

with EYP. During party nights all people

The psychologists have done different stud-

dance and have fun, and it’s quite similar

IS THE COLOUR I’M WEARING...

ies talking about colours. They think all col-

to a Hell party. Imagine Satan dancing in

ours have a psychological relation. So, yel-

the middle of the 20’s party with crazy

low is the colour of intellectual people. It is

English guys, he’ll fit right in! So EYP is

associated with intelligence. And it’s true,

quite a hell, hell is party, is craziness.

because all people in EYP are very very very

However, yellow shows happiness. Quite

intelligent, aren’t you?

similar to stimulation, promotes closeness

Look around you, what can you see? Lots of
crazy delegates? Sleepy journos? True, but
also there is one more thing..

Alessandra Pepe, the organizer, has noticed

and excitement. Weren’t you all thinking

it. What’s the colour of the Session I ask her?
“YELLOW!”, she answered. Right now you
can find plates, napkins, folders, pens, lanyards... And also, flowers and Matera town,
in general, has a yellow tone!

But the question is, why yellow? In fact,
none of the orgas had planned to buy all
things in yellow so maybe it’s a sign from
the stars, maybe it’s destiny!
Talking with the experts, yellow colour is a
warm colour. It’s the colour of the light, of
the sun. When anyone thinks about Yellow,
the first thing that they think of is the sun, in
hot temperature... Try to do it, think in yellow colour, and I’m totally sure that your
brain goes to bring you a beach image, or a

At the same time, yellow has a future conno-

in yellow (excited) the day before arriving

tation. In other words, yellow causes people

in Bari?

to move on to the future, to research moder-

But you have to know one thing. Garish

nity and going to new things.

yellow is the colour of ridicule. So if you

Yellow means power, light, action; all quali-

don’t want to be ridiculed at your best

ties of young people. We are the future; we

friends party, try to avoid garish yellow!

have the power to change the world. We

To sum up, yellow is close related to good

have to act; we have to have the will of doing

humour, happiness, cheerfulness, excite-

all that we want.

ment, affection and impulsive attitude.

When you are walking along a street, you

So if you want to show to the rest of EYP

will find lots of yellow things. But now they

that you are really happy, wear a huge

will always have a positive aspect. Some-

yellow flower!

times it will express danger, arrogance, and
rage, and is linked with hell because sulphur
is yellow.

CARLA THE HEARTBREAKER

And thinking about hell, this is quite related

A Plague on Both Your Houses and a Kiss on Both Your Bums
Dear Mafıa members,

George - Broken the Omerta

George Iosifidis has displeased the Godfather and Godmother and we demand murder by Hairy Eyeball. For
those who have not yet attended the “Murder by Hairy Eyeball” course, it is a villainous look achieved by raising one eyebrow and staring intently with “Death” written in your eyes. Following these looks his will to live
will wilt like a dead yellow flower.
The Godparents will offer 10 Lornies for every look given to George in front of them while they are sitting in
the Pressroom.
HOWEVER – Should George redeem himself by declaring his undying love for the MoneyPressRoom and apologising to the Godparents, we may reconsider the Omerta.
Until then, get to it – NOW. Capiche? Word.

This project has been carried out with the support of the European Community in the framework of the Socrates Programme.

La Soprano - Issue 3

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